. . .there is an element of Play that is almost ritualistic in Black folk life. It serves to mediate the tensions, stress, and pain of constant exploitation and oppression.
What we cannot imagine cannot come into being. - Bell Hooks
What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
- Bell Hooks
It is poetry that changes everything. - Bell Hooks
It is poetry that changes everything.
Dominator culture has tried to keep us all afraid, to make us choose safety instead of risk, sameness instead of diversity. Moving through that fear,… - Bell Hooks
Dominator culture has tried to keep us all afraid, to make us choose safety instead of risk, sameness instead of diversity. Moving through that fear,…
What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe. - Bell Hooks
What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
I celebrate teaching that enables transgressions - a movement against and beyond boundaries. It is that movement which makes education the practice o… - Bell Hooks
I celebrate teaching that enables transgressions - a movement against and beyond boundaries. It is that movement which makes education the practice o…
[O]ne of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance, places where we know we are not alone. - Bell Hooks
[O]ne of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance, places where we know we are not alone.
To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality. - Bell Hooks
To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.
Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power - not because they don't see it, but because they see it and they do… - Bell Hooks
Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power - not because they don't see it, but because they see it and they do…
Beloved community is formed not by the eradication of difference but by its affirmation, by each of us claiming the identities and cultural legacies … - Bell Hooks
Beloved community is formed not by the eradication of difference but by its affirmation, by each of us claiming the identities and cultural legacies …
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